I Hate Hockey

A Steamy Small Town Omegaverse Why Choose Hockey Romance

By: Kara Kaminski

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

I hate hockey.

Unfortunately, hockey is my family’s religion—and my hometown’s entire personality.

When my older brother calls and says the Rinkrats are about to be sold, I should hang up. I escaped this town, this team, and my “perfect omega daughter” role years ago.

Instead, I get on a plane.

Now I’m back in Puckridge, population: hockey, gossip, and bad decisions. My brother’s coaching the failing team. My ex—the one who chose the sport over me—is the captain trying to hold the locker room together with duct tape and rage.

And the franchise? One bad season away from being bought and relocated by a big-city shark who sees our town as cheap real estate.

I do what I’m good at: rebrand the team, pack the stands, fix the sponsorships, turn the Rinkrats into a social media fairy tale. For a minute, it works.

Then the sabotage starts.

Mysterious offers. Tampered equipment. Players getting poached with deals they’d be idiots to refuse. On the ice, they’re a mess—fractured lines, bad blood, zero trust.

That’s when the ugly truth hits me:

This isn’t a marketing problem. It’s a pack problem.

As a rare unbonded omega, I’ve spent my whole life avoiding exactly what everyone expected from me—collars, mates, a neat little pack life. But a bonded pack shares more than a bed, more than a nest. They share instincts, focus, and something you can’t fake on the ice: trust.

If I bond with them, they’ll play like they can actually read each other’s minds. They’ll stop looking over their shoulders for the next trade offer. They’ll choose each other, and this town, instead of cashing out.

All I have to do is break every rule I ever made for myself… and sleep with the men who already broke my heart once.

What could possibly go wrong?

I Hate Hockey is a filthy, emotional small-town omegaverse reverse harem romance with one stubborn omega, a whole bench of possessive hockey players, a grumpy brother-coach, and zero choosing between love interests… because, why choose, right? First in the Why Knot Pack trilogy; HFN for the pack, HEA over the series.

High tension, low resolution

The writing is very good.
The ending left me wondering how something could be so long and still end on what felt like a cliffhanger.
The book does not fit the usual mold for the genre listed.

Virtual voice is awful.